Mr Price rooftop garden – A green creative space in Durban’s innercity
A desolate thoroughfare on the roof of the Durban Station has been converted by the Mr Price Group into a rooftop garden that serves as a green oasis where staff can relax and let their creative juices...
View ArticleSiemens builds cutting edge green school at Mandela home village
In a small village on the banks of Mbhashe river, not far from Mthatha in the Eastern Cape lies the almost completed Mandela School of Science and Technology, which will soon be open to 700 learners...
View ArticleThe Gateway Hotel: A green hotel in Umhlanga
Umhlanga’s Gateway Hotel has been designed to minimise the amount of energy used in the hotel and subsequently its carbon footprint. At a recent Event Greening Forum meeting Ariff Mohamed, maintenance...
View ArticleNatural Ventilation: Greening a 25 year old commercial building
Natural ventilation is one of the basic tenets of green building. One of the primary benefits is the reduction in energy use by reducing the need for energy hungry mechanical Heating, Ventilation and...
View ArticleRainwater harvesting and purification
We install rainwater harvesting systems that effectively harvest rainwater, treat it and supply it back to the house of business in order to reduce their municipal water consumption. We are based in...
View ArticleCoca-Cola’s world-class green bottling facility
Internationally recognised beverage company Coca-Cola has invested R400 million into the development, construction and design of a green bottling plant for its Valpre product in Heidelberg, southeast...
View ArticleSouth Africa’s first ‘green’ transport facility
Wallacedene taxi rank in Cape Town is the first ‘green’ public transport facility in the country, designed to achieve energy independence by operating off the electricity grid and to meet most of its...
View ArticleSaxon Hotel’s rooftop organic food garden
It sounds like a paradox, but an organic rooftop food garden in the tree-lined suburb of Sandhurst, Johannesburg is an essential ingredient in one of the country’s best fine dining establishments, Five...
View ArticleTalk: Our Gorgeous Green House
The Botanical Society of South Africa will be hosting a talk titled Our Gorgeous Green House on the 25th of May 2015 at 6pm. The talk will be delivered by Jane Troughton.Troughton will share her...
View ArticleMIEO Energy Efficiency Seminar
The Association for Mining and Industrial Energy Optimisation (MIEO) will be hosting an energy efficiency seminar on the 19th of June. The seminar will focus on optimising energy use within the...
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